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News on Japan, Business News, Opinion, Sports, Entertainment and MoreTue, 03 Mar 2015 23:32:03 +0000en-UShourly1What does Vladimir Putin really want in Ukraine?http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2015/02/04/commentary/world-commentary/vladimir-putin-really-want-ukraine/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=vladimir-putin-really-want-ukraine
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2015/02/04/commentary/world-commentary/vladimir-putin-really-want-ukraine/#commentsWed, 04 Feb 2015 09:32:18 +0000http://awsadmin.japantimes.co.jp/?post_type=opinion&p=711346Sowing confusion is how Russian President Vladimir Putin, increasingly isolated from Western conversations, keeps the world on its toes about the conflict in Ukraine.

]]>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2015/01/20/commentary/proven-scare-tactics-serve-putin-well/feed/0Putin’s display of a Peronist personahttp://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/12/16/commentary/world-commentary/putins-display-of-a-peronist-persona/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=putins-display-of-a-peronist-persona
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/12/16/commentary/world-commentary/putins-display-of-a-peronist-persona/#commentsMon, 16 Dec 2013 14:00:58 +0000http://awsadmin.japantimes.co.jp/?post_type=opinion&p=495854After nearly 14 years in power, perhaps the best comparative description of Russian President Vladimir Putin may be a transgender cross between the former Argentine leader Juan Peron and his legendary wife, Evita

]]>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/12/16/commentary/world-commentary/putins-display-of-a-peronist-persona/feed/0Final ride for the Putin showboat?http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2012/06/04/commentary/world-commentary/final-ride-for-the-putin-showboat/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=final-ride-for-the-putin-showboat
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2012/06/04/commentary/world-commentary/final-ride-for-the-putin-showboat/#commentsMon, 04 Jun 2012 00:00:31 +0000http://awsadmin.japantimes.co.jp/?post_type=opinion&p=8648Vladimir Putin’s new presidential term is just beginning, but it increasingly looks like the beginning of the end. Whenever Russia’s people pour into the streets en masse, as they currently are doing, from that point on things never work out well for the authorities. In 1917, Russian Emperor Nicholas II had to abdicate in the […]

]]>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2012/06/04/commentary/world-commentary/final-ride-for-the-putin-showboat/feed/0Reformer for the delusionalhttp://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2011/10/05/commentary/world-commentary/reformer-for-the-delusional/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=reformer-for-the-delusional
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2011/10/05/commentary/world-commentary/reformer-for-the-delusional/#commentsWed, 05 Oct 2011 00:00:45 +0000http://awsadmin.japantimes.co.jp/?post_type=opinion&p=11877The only vote that matters in Russia’s 2012 presidential election is now in, and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has cast it for himself. He will be returning as Russia’s president next year. When the news broke — together with the lesser news that the incumbent, Dmitry Medvedev, will step down to become Putin’s prime minister […]

]]>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2011/10/05/commentary/world-commentary/reformer-for-the-delusional/feed/0The resistance to Russia’s political orderhttp://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2010/10/03/commentary/world-commentary/the-resistance-to-russias-political-order/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-resistance-to-russias-political-order
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2010/10/03/commentary/world-commentary/the-resistance-to-russias-political-order/#commentsSun, 03 Oct 2010 00:03:30 +0000http://awsadmin.japantimes.co.jp/?post_type=opinion&p=15672MOSCOW — Russian President Dmitry Medvedev’s decision to fire Moscow’s long-entrenched mayor, Yuri Luzhkov, is the most decisive move of his presidency. Is it really part of his drive to modernize Russia, or part of an emerging power play with Moscow’s real strong man, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin? Anatoly Chubais, the father of Russian privatization […]

]]>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2010/10/03/commentary/world-commentary/the-resistance-to-russias-political-order/feed/0Cruelty of chance deals Poland another blowhttp://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2010/04/16/commentary/world-commentary/cruelty-of-chance-deals-poland-another-blow/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=cruelty-of-chance-deals-poland-another-blow
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2010/04/16/commentary/world-commentary/cruelty-of-chance-deals-poland-another-blow/#commentsFri, 16 Apr 2010 00:02:23 +0000http://awsadmin.japantimes.co.jp/?post_type=opinion&p=14400MOSCOW — In Russia, somewhere behind every event lurks the question: Who is to blame? In the tragedy that claimed the lives of Polish President Lech Kaczynski and 95 other Polish leaders, we can answer that question with certainty in at least one respect: History is to blame. The event is so hideous that it […]

]]>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2010/04/16/commentary/world-commentary/cruelty-of-chance-deals-poland-another-blow/feed/0Sunday’s stakes in Ukrainehttp://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2010/02/05/commentary/world-commentary/sundays-stakes-in-ukraine/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sundays-stakes-in-ukraine
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2010/02/05/commentary/world-commentary/sundays-stakes-in-ukraine/#commentsFri, 05 Feb 2010 00:03:11 +0000http://awsadmin.japantimes.co.jp/?post_type=opinion&p=14448MOSCOW — “A pox on both your houses” may be an appropriate individual response to frustration with the political candidates on offer in an election. But it is a dangerous sentiment for governments to hold. Choice is the essence of governance, and to abstain from it — for whatever reason — is to shirk responsibility. […]

]]>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2010/02/05/commentary/world-commentary/sundays-stakes-in-ukraine/feed/0Two funerals plus the legacy of Khrushchevhttp://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2009/08/02/commentary/world-commentary/two-funerals-plus-the-legacy-of-khrushchev/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=two-funerals-plus-the-legacy-of-khrushchev
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2009/08/02/commentary/world-commentary/two-funerals-plus-the-legacy-of-khrushchev/#commentsSun, 02 Aug 2009 00:00:58 +0000http://awsadmin.japantimes.co.jp/?post_type=opinion&p=16834NEW YORK — My great-grandfather, Nikita Khrushchev, has been on my mind recently. I suppose it was the 50th anniversary of the “kitchen debate,” which he held with Richard Nixon that first triggered my memories. But the funeral the week before last in Budapest for Gen. Bela Kiraly, who commanded the Hungarian Revolution’s freedom fighters […]

]]>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2009/08/02/commentary/world-commentary/two-funerals-plus-the-legacy-of-khrushchev/feed/0Russia’s convertible iconhttp://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2008/08/10/commentary/world-commentary/russias-convertible-icon/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=russias-convertible-icon
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2008/08/10/commentary/world-commentary/russias-convertible-icon/#commentsSun, 10 Aug 2008 00:04:43 +0000http://awsadmin.japantimes.co.jp/?post_type=opinion&p=20297MOSCOW — Prophets, it is said, are supposed to be without honor in their homeland. Yet Moscow has just witnessed the extraordinary sight of Alexander Solzhenitsyn — the dissident and once-exiled author of the “Gulag Archipelago” and “One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich” receiving what amounts to a state funeral, with Prime Minister […]

]]>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2008/08/10/commentary/world-commentary/russias-convertible-icon/feed/0No graceful exit for Russia’s Grand Putinhttp://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2007/10/08/commentary/world-commentary/no-graceful-exit-for-russias-grand-putin/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=no-graceful-exit-for-russias-grand-putin
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2007/10/08/commentary/world-commentary/no-graceful-exit-for-russias-grand-putin/#commentsMon, 08 Oct 2007 00:01:19 +0000http://awsadmin.japantimes.co.jp/?post_type=opinion&p=26663VIENNA — For those who still wondered who Vladimir Putin is, the mystery is over. His latest actions show that he is Russia’s new autocrat. He is a czar, pure and simple. The seven years since Putin assumed power in the Kremlin have been a time of conflicting signals. On one hand, he appears to […]

]]>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2007/10/08/commentary/world-commentary/no-graceful-exit-for-russias-grand-putin/feed/0Mirror images of arrogancehttp://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2007/06/05/commentary/world-commentary/mirror-images-of-arrogance/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mirror-images-of-arrogance
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2007/06/05/commentary/world-commentary/mirror-images-of-arrogance/#commentsTue, 05 Jun 2007 00:02:17 +0000http://awsadmin.japantimes.co.jp/?post_type=opinion&p=26549NEW YORK — This week’s summit of the major Group of Eight nations will probably be the last such meeting for U.S. President George W. Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin. Seven years ago, at their first meeting in Ljubljana, Slovenia, Bush looked into Putin’s eyes and somehow spotted the soul of a Christian gentleman, […]

]]>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2007/06/05/commentary/world-commentary/mirror-images-of-arrogance/feed/0Silent consent to lawlessnesshttp://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2006/10/13/commentary/world-commentary/silent-consent-to-lawlessness/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=silent-consent-to-lawlessness
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2006/10/13/commentary/world-commentary/silent-consent-to-lawlessness/#commentsFri, 13 Oct 2006 00:00:46 +0000http://awsadmin.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2006/10/13/%opinion_category%/silent-consent-to-lawlessness/NEW YORK — It is time to end the fiction that Vladimir Putin’s “dictatorship of law” has made postcommunist Russia any less lawless. The murder last Satur- day of Anna Politkovskaya, one of Russia’s bravest and best journalists, a woman who dared to expose the brutal murders committed by Russian troops in Chechnya, is final […]

]]>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2006/10/13/commentary/world-commentary/silent-consent-to-lawlessness/feed/0State glory: gulag of the Russian mindhttp://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2006/08/25/commentary/world-commentary/state-glory-gulag-of-the-russian-mind/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=state-glory-gulag-of-the-russian-mind
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2006/08/25/commentary/world-commentary/state-glory-gulag-of-the-russian-mind/#commentsFri, 25 Aug 2006 00:01:05 +0000http://awsadmin.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2006/08/25/%opinion_category%/state-glory-gulag-of-the-russian-mind/NEW YORK — It is now 15 years since the failed coup of August 1991 against Mikhail Gorbachev. At the time, Gorbachev’s policies of perestroika and glasnost were seen by Soviet hardliners as a sellout of communist Russia to the capitalist West. But it is now clear that the KGB and the military who launched […]